Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies

Princess Maria Carolina Ferdinanda of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (29 November 1820 – 14 January 1861) was a princess of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and an infanta of Spain through her marriage to Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VI. Maria Carolina was a daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.

Marriage and later life She was considered as an early candidate for a marriage to her first cousin Prince Charles of Orléans, the fourth son of King Louis Philippe and Queen Maria Amalia but nothing ever came of these plans due to his early death.

After Infante Francisco's wife died in 1844 he wished to remarry and sent a proposal to Carolina however these plans failed as well. In the end Maria Carolina ended up marrying her first cousin, the Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Montemolin, eldest son of Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, the carlist claimant and his wife Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal, on 10 July 1850 at Caserta Palace in Caserta, Two Sicilies.

Maria Carolina and her husband died of typhus within a few hours of one another on 14 January 1861 in Trieste. Maria Carolina had contracted the disease from nursing her husband. The couple died without issue. Maria Carolina and Carlos were buried at the Cathedral of St. Just in Trieste.

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